Trip Down Memory Lane

Benjamin is here this week-end and yesterday we decided to find the old pictures we took from our movie camera.   Now that was a LONG time ago.   We lived at Towanda, to be exact.  We had two little girls and that was to be our family.    HA

We traveled back to a time when Goldie, our cat, had two or three litters of kittens a year.   Then one day she would take them for a walk and come back alone.  We had the most wonderful dog ever - SNOWBALL.   She would take us to find the new kittens when they were born.   The cat and dog ate out of the same bowl, never the right kind of food or treats, but table scraps with milk.
One time we had Snowball sheared in the summer and the cat went on the roof of the house for two days and hissed every time the poor dog would come to the back door.

We saw the girls with kittens in old wicker buggies taking them for a walk around the yard.   Then later Jill put some in the basket of the bike and around and around they went.

And...the ponies, Ajax and Skeeter.   Goodness.   Ted and I just had the best time.   Benjamin finally said, "I'm bored" so we put the film on stop and ate some lunch.    After lunch Benjamin and Grandad went bowling and I went shopping.

Last night after we had supper we turned it back on and he got to see pictures of his great-grandmother and great-grandfather.    He thinks Grandad looks a little like his dad.   We also saw Grandma and Grandad when they were young, had dark hair, and grandma was a thin lady.   And we all noticed how much Mark looks like his own dad.

We saw Kim and Jill going to school with their faithful dog seeing them off at the gate.   She would sit there until the bus came and every afternoon at 3:50 you would know it was time for the bus when she would be there waiting for them.

Then we came to a part when the two little girls had a baby sister born.   She was a cute little thing and funny.  She hardly ever got to cry because one or the other of the girls would be waiting for her to wake up.   Jill told us recently she just LOVED Connie so.   She said she used to be so happy when she would come home from school and could play with her.

 The real reason we turned the movie on was so Benjamin could see his mom swim in 2" of water.   That clip never gets old to me and Grandad and I had our laugh of the year.

We also saw where the three little girls had a brother born.  Not many pictures of Mark - hmm - wonder why.